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Quote:Dhamra investment region 

The Dhamra Investment Region is envisioned to become a stepping stone in the development of a resilient and responsible port city in the Dhamra region with a focus on controlled and sustainable urban growth while supporting local livelihoods.

Consisting of six optimally designed industrial zones with world class facilities, the project's multi-sectoral approach would offer the ideal environment for setting up manufacturing facilities for various industries such as food processing, textiles, fertilisers, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. It would also be equipped with a logistics hub, which would handle domestic and international traffic from its industrial zones as well as support adjacent industrial clusters. Additionally, it would have dedicated commercial, recreational and residential zones making Dhamra a self-contained ecosystem.

The region has the advantage of excellent road, rail and port connectivity and is proposed to be developed as one of the coastal economic zones under the Sagarmala programme. Its port connectivity would make Dhamra an excellent value proposition for industries looking to tap into the rapidly growing markets of South-East Asia.

Supplemented with favourable state policies and abundant resource availability, Dhamra is well poised to open fresh avenues for industrial development on the east coast of India.

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Quote:Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region, Paradip

India is the fourth largest consumer of crude oil and petroleum products in the world. India is also the third largest producer of chemicals in Asia. The sector has been growing significantly over the past few years. This can be substantiated by the fact that Chemical products' contribution to the state GVA increased with a CAGR of 12% over the period of 5 years from 2013 to 2018.

PCPIR region at Paradip is being developed as world class infrastructure to provide a conducive business environment and promote and attract exclusive investments in the Petroleum, Chemicals, Petrochemicals and allied sector. It is one of the four proposed PCPIRs in India and is also located near one of the largest freight ports in India, which provides a gate way to all the markets in Indo-China and Eastern Asia.

Spread across an area of nearly 68,000 acres and with envisaged investment of USD 42.20 billion, the PCPIR at Paradip is one of the largest integrated investment regions in India. Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), India's biggest state-owned oil gas corporation is the anchor tenant in the project and has committed petrochemical feedstock facilities such as Polypropylene, Mono Ethylene Glycol, Paraxylene-Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) Complex and Petcoke Gasification from its refinery.

Video Download: https://youtu.be/zL0UYoG4M0A  Project Brochure: https://investodisha.gov.in/download/PET...ochure.pdf

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Ministry of Commerce & Industry

Development of National Investment and Manufacturing Zone at Kalinganagar in Odisha

Posted On: 28 JUN 2019 1:43PM by PIB Delhi

Government has granted final approval to National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) in Kalinganagar, Jajpur district, Odisha. On the receipt of proposals from State Government, the concerned central Ministries/Departments have undertaken steps for creation/upgradation of external infrastructure linkages.

Road Connectivity

Paradip-Kalinganagar section improvement (Length-121 Kms): Upgradation from 2-lane carriageway to 6-lane carriageway of NH-200 between Chandikhole to KNIMZ and 4-lane carriageway to 6-lane carriageway of NH-5A between Chandikhole to Paradip Port are in progress.

Expansion of NH53/200 in and around KNIMZ (Lengh-132.36 Kms): Improvement of the stretch Talcher-Duburi-Chandikhole to Four lane standard has been awarded in three packages on EPC mode to Contractual agencies. Appointed date/Commencement date has been declared for two packages namely, Talcher to Kamakhyanagar Section and Kamakhyanagar to Duburi section as 21.02.2019 and 23.02.2019, respectively.

Expansion of Brahmani River bridge: Initially it has been decided to upgrade existing 2 lanes bridge with 6 lane bridge to cater the traffic. This work has been included in the rehabilitation and upgradation work of Chandikhole to Duburi Section of NH200 to 4 lanes. Now, the existing 2-lane bridge is to be retained and new 3-lane bridge to be constructed on river Brahmani in the new carriageway as part of the scope of work.

Expansion of NH 215 from Jajpur Road to Panikoili: The road from Jajpur Road to Panikoili section of NH-215 has already been widened to 4-lane standard under 4 laning work of Panikoili- Rimuli Project section executed on BOT(Toll) mode.
Rail Connectivity

A Broad Gauge railway line of 104.24 Km in State of Odisha, between Angul and Sukinda (Districts Angul&Jajpur respectively) is being constructed, which provides a direct link between iron-ore rich areas of Odisha (Joda- Barbil) to steel and sponge iron industries in Angul region and will also provide alternative route between coal mining belt of Talcher to coal based thermal power plant in Kalinganagar Industrial areas.

The execution of Angul-Sukinda new line project is being done by a SPV named “Angul- Sukinda Railway Limited (ASRL)” under participative scheme of Ministry of Railways.
Waterways Connectivity

To improve waterways connectivity between Kalinganagar and Paradeep andDhamra Ports, a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the development of National Waterway - 5 (including above stretches) in Odisha has been undertaken and development of an Inland Water Transport (IWT) terminal in the south of KNIMZ near Pankapal village has been planned to meet external infrastructure linkages requirement for NIMZ at Kalinganagar, Jajpur district in Odisha.

Paradip Port has developed a new berth of capacity 5 MMTPA with Ancillary Facilities for handling clean cargo, including containers. The facilities at the Terminal include 450M Berth, paved storage area of about 1 Lakh SQM and a warehouse complex of 600M x 40M with handling equipment like HMCS and RTGS. This berth can be utilized by the industries in Kalinganagar Industrial Zone for export of their finished products.

Government has also granted final approval to two other NIMZs viz., Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh and Sangareddy district (erstwhile Medak district), Telangana. The steps taken by the central Ministries/Departments for creation/upgradation of external infrastructure linkages for these NIMZs.

Nadikudi-Srikalahasti New Railway Line (309 Kms) was sanctioned during 2015-16 which passes through Prakasam District.

Survey for New Railway Line between Darsi and Narsaraopet (65 Kms) which passes through Prakasam District was sanctioned in 2016-17.

Doubling of Railway Line with OHE between Guntur and Guntakal (401Kms) which passes through Prakasam District was sanctioned in 2017-18.

Third Railway line between Vijayawada-Guduru (293 Kms) which passes through Prakasam District was sanctioned in 2017-18.

Survey for a new railway line from Patancheru- Sangareddy- Jogipet- Medak (95 Kms) was sanctioned in 2018-19.

This information was given by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, PiyushGoyal, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

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Today I came across several Youtube videos highlighting the developments in Odisha; many done by people outside of Odisha. Here is a sample.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvWnBUnpai0 - ODISHA, India's best kept secret || Top 10 facts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc4xjekQ0wE - Odisha, India's Best Kept Secrect Part 2 || Top 10 Facts Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PWKM0SsPFg - ODISHA MEGA PROJECT WHICH CAN CREATE 6,75000 JOBS | MEGA PROJECT OF INDIA | FUTURE ODISHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVtqPY2KPbY&t - ODISHA MEGA PROJECT WHICH CAN BOOST THE ECONOMY OF INDIA | ODISHA MEGA PROJECT | PART-2 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOucLb9D_c - 11 BIGGEST FUTURE MEGAPROJECTS IN ODISHA ||ओडिशा में 11 सबसे बड़ी भविष्य परियोजनाओं

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2. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=...677&type=3

A short compilation is at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=...677&type=3 .

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2. https://www.facebook.com/notes/odishalin...8666522678